Tomas Liubinas

Today I’ve read an article about some british craftswoman producing baby-like dolls. She is really good at her job, and makes her best to manufacture as realistically looking dolls as possible. The dolls can even breathe. Do you already expect some cute looking little wonders? Wrong. A single reaction from people who commented the article was they were fucking freaked out. Indeed the dolls look really CREEPY (pics). And it is no surprise. Cathy Newcombe starting this business probably has never heard about it, but there is a theory called uncanny valley hypothesis. It basically states that, the more you try to reproduce artificially nice looking human the better chance is you get an opposite reaction. Interesting isn’t it? So back to what I wanted to say. If you are in toy, robot, CGI, gaming or sex doll industry and plan a human looking product, you will fail. Don’t do that. (Unless, of course, you are Ron Mueck and love scaring people).

Remember what was Tunguska meteor? It exploded over Siberia on June 30, 1908, exactly 100 years ago. I am really excited waiting for Century Protal reporting the event. Century Portal is Lithuanian web site announcing exactly 100 hundred year old “news”. Due to Julian calendar shift and news traveling not as fast as today there might be some delay before we can read it, but I can’t wait for those serious century old intelligentsia journaslists covering such an extraordinary event